Böcker av Vincenzo De Bellis

"Published on theoccasion of the exhibition The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis."

Six decades of sculptural innovation from the Arte Povera pioneer and alchemist of the everydayOver the course of more than five decades, Jannis Kounellis developed a singular practice across painting, works on paper, sculpture, installation and hybrid works combining objects with live performance. Playing a central role in the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, Kounellis created wide-ranging and innovative works exploring theater, migration, history, politics and other themes, which continue to influence subsequent generations of artists.Published by the Walker Art Center for the first US Kounellis survey in over 35 years, Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts offers the most comprehensive assessment of his career to date. The richly illustrated catalog, assembled with the full cooperation of the artist's estate and archive, presents a first-of-its-kind collection of visual materials and Kounellis' writings, including image-based exhibition and performance chronologies. The volume also features essays by Vincenzo de Bellis, Claire Gilman, Kit Hammonds and Ara H. Merjian.Jannis Kounellis (1936-2017) was born in Piraeus, Greece. In 1956, he moved to Rome and by 1960 was an active member of the Arte Povera movement. In 1969 he created one of his best-known works: the installation of 12 live horses in the gallery L'Attico in Rome. Kounellis' first New York solo show was in 1972. Recent exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece (2012) and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2007), among others.

"American Art 1961-2001" indaga in modo inedito la storia dell'arte moderna negli Stati Uniti tra due momenti decisivi della storia americana, la guerra del Vietnam e l'attacco terroristico alle Torri Gemelle, attraverso una straordinaria selezione di opere di celebri artisti come Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg, Kara Walker e Andy Warhol. Il volume mette a confronto la ricchezza e la diversità di temi e correnti dell'arte americana in quarant'anni di storia, dall'astrazione modernista alle contaminazioni con la produzione di massa, dalle ricerche concettuali e performative alle rivendicazioni per i diritti civili, attraverso una straordinaria selezione di oltre ottanta opere tra pittura, fotografia, video, scultura e installazioni della collezione del Walker Art Center di Minneapolis, uno dei più importanti musei di arte contemporanea del mondo. Investigando la nozione stessa di opera d'arte viene analizzato il suo rapporto con le trasformazioni della società contemporanea. Le diverse generazioni di artisti americani sperimentano linguaggi che aprono infatti alla ridefinizione dei confini dell'arte, unendo tecniche e media diversi, e usano il potere dell'arte anche come strumento per affrontare temi quali il consumismo e la produzione di massa, il femminismo e l'identità di genere, le questioni razziali e la lotta per i diritti civili.

A selection of nearly 60 works made by the contemporary artist in the past 15 years.This book gathers a selection of around 60 works made by Francesco Arena from 2004 to 2019, plus two scholarly texts by Vincenzo De Bellis, curator and associate director of events at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, curator of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo. These analyse the basic themes in the artist's research, like the relationship between man and time and how this conditions the spaces we live in. The monograph is rounded off by a conversation between Francesco Arena and Ines Goldbach and technical entries of all the works with illustrations and short texts compiled directly by the artist.